Are you on a laptop? Your function keys may have as default actions the control of laptop display functions and other provisions. (These are usually signified by a variety of symbols.)
Usually, there is a way to obtain the F4 key function. If the legend is in blue, look for a blue Fn key down in the bottom row of the keyboard. Hold that key depressed and then press the F4 key, then release them both. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Sylvain Bromberber [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 17:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Format Hi Drew, Thank you for your long explanatory message, but I seem to miss something essential. Whenever I press the F4 key no matter where I am in Libre Office Base or Writer I get a set of four windows presuming that I have a projector on and giving me options on how to connect to it! I even tried the letter F key followed by the 4 one. No cigar! I don't know what this focused data control is about. I am puzzled but appreciate the trouble you are taking to help me. Sylvain -----Original Message----- From: drew jensen Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Format On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 15:18 -0500, Sylvain Bromberber wrote: > Thank you, but I meant my computer screen, not a screen on which the table > was projected. > Howdy Sylvain Right and that is what I was speaking to - albeit, too briefly I suppose. By-default, with a writer document window the F4 key will open the data source window, docked, in the top of the document window frame. This is often referred to as the 'beamer'...a name for whatever reason I just always liked.. OK - if you have a form definition within an ODB file, when that window is open (this is just a special case of a writer document window) and you hit F4 the beamer is displayed - however, as this is now attached to a Base embedded form it behaves differently. The record set linked to from the CURRENTLY FOCUSED DATA CONTROL on the form is displayed in a grid view in the beamer. (important to remember the bit about the focused control, the forum can have multiple record sets open at a time) This is just another live view to the record set, if you can update this record set in the form you can do so in the beamer. If you use filters to limit the result set in the beamer it also limits the records in the form detail control. I assumed that was what you where talking about. Best wishes, //drew > > -----Original Message----- > From: drew jensen > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 1:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Format > > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 21:53 -0500, Sylvain Bromberber wrote: > > I once opened the table in one of my data bases and it popped up in a > > format I have not been able to duplicate. The upper half of the screen > > was > > the table in the form of a spread sheet but the lower half had the items > > of each row in a little table with the items under each other. I have > > been > > unable to duplicate this format, which I really liked. Any suggestions? > > > > With any form open hit the F4 key...that should do it > > //drew > > > Sylvain > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
